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Looking through the logs, however, makes it clear that the operator of this computer wasn’t actually after information about the computer society’s illustrious alums; rather, he’d found a hole in the code behind the web page, a way to run programs on HCS’s server. He made quick work of defacing our home page, replacing it with a spartan battle flag (still visible online at http://hcs.harvard.edu/hackedindex.shtml) announcing that “Unknown Core Own3d Harvard.” “Brazil...
...uncommon. HCS has suffered a handful over the past year, the web server for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department has been similarly attacked, and the people.fas server, which holds student home pages, is at the very least vulnerable, if anyone is running poorly written code on it (and, surely, someone is). To be fair, these attacks aren’t terribly dangerous—barring deeper security problems, they can’t really do much more damage than messing up a few web sites, and clever configuration can even further limit the extent of the harm...
...were a civil servant assigned to the role of executing prisoners, I would object, refusing to carry out my duties, even at the risk of being fired, because they contradict my moral code, which is defined by my religious beliefs. Even if the institution I act within is a civic institution, all of my actions are nevertheless subject to morality. I may not agree with Pope Benedict’s stance on homosexual marriage, but to say that it isn’t the Church’s business to call people to action on such a thing is completely...
...This morning before dawn no stars I try again." In Overlord--the title comes from the Allied code name for D-day--we find Graham deep in prayer, to whom and for what she isn't sure. But her poems, which mix autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with the raw human realities of war: "The experience of killing and getting killed." --By Lev Grossman
ItwasJ.RobertOppenheimerhimselfwho chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...